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H. L. Mencken Quotes

American - Writer | September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

People World Security Liberty Want

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Animal Fence Ground Sit Politician

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Women Men Happy Single Only Folk

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Religion Communism Up Like Made Any

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Man Happy Drink Single Used Worse

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Woman Man Wise Long Matter Average

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Jail Never Evidence Jury Courtroom

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Men Ideas Die True Noble Idea

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

God Imagination Wise Impossible Easy

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Democracy Worship Form Also

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Animal Human Greater Seems Capacity

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Go Reason Same Eggs Working Laying

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